Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
Six Securities Services Acquires Oslo Clearing
Swiss post-trade services provider Six Securities Services has completed the acquisition of Oslo Clearing.
BGC Agrees to Purchase Mexican broker Remate Lince
New York brokerage BGC Partners intends to buy Mexican interdealer broker Remate Lince, which runs an interest rate derivatives and bond brokerage businesses.
ISDA Taps ICE Benchmark Admin to Run ISDAFIX Benchmark
Derivatives industry body the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has appointed ICE Benchmark Administration, the IntercontinentalExchange-owned independent benchmark operator that already acts as the new administrator for the LIBOR benchmark…
GMEX Index Unit Strikes IRS Data Deal with Tullett Prebon Info
Global Derivatives Indices (GDI), the wholly owned index development and production subsidiary of derivatives exchange operator and consultancy Global Markets Exchange Group International (GMEX) has struck a deal with Tullett Prebon Information (TPI),…
Tradier Gets $3M Funding to Expand API, Developer Base
Cloud-based brokerage platform and supporting data, trading and analytics application hosting environment provider Tradier has raised $3 million in new funding from Devonshire Investors-the private investment arm of Fidelity Investments' owners, the…
FTSE-TMX Index JV Preps LatAm Indexes
FTSE TMS Global Debt Capital Markets, the index joint venture between London Stock Exchange-owned index provider FTSE and Canadian exchange group TMX, is preparing to launch a family of Latin American indexes, in partnership with Mexico-based pricing…
Twitter Acquires Firehose Provider Gnip
Social media network Twitter has announced its acquisition of Gnip, a data provider that is one of the few to have access to the so-called "firehose" of the micro-blogging service's information.
Cordatum Appointed Sales Agent for Financial Machineries' Trade Data Analytics
Cordatum Associates, a London-based consultancy providing advisory services around market data sales and procurement to content providers has signed a global sales agreement to act as sales agent for Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics…
Twitter Buys Tweet Data Distributor Gnip to Grow Social Data Biz
Social media microblogging site Twitter has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based social media aggregator Gnip for an undisclosed sum.
Citi Rolls out Pricing Tool on Bloomberg App Portal
Citigroup has made a new electronic block pricing tool available on Bloomberg's App Portal, to allow traders to request bespoke prices for block orders as part of their workflow on the Bloomberg Professional service.
KKR Sells Ipreo to Blackstone, Goldman
Investment and advisory firm Blackstone and Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division have bought market intelligence and workflow solutions provider Ipreo from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, in a deal that media reports value at $975…
SuperDerivatives Adds Icap G7 Data to DGX Store
Over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is adding real-time market data from interdealer broker Icap to the third-party app store on its DGX market data terminal, to provide customers with an overview of rates from…
Bloomberg Integrates SIX Market Data
Bloomberg is integrating SIX Financial Information's MDFselect real-time data feed to its Bloomberg Platform managed market data distribution service.
Bellin Adds VWD Data to Treasury Platform
Ettenheim, Germany-based treasury management software provider Bellin has partnered with Frankfurt-based market data vendor VWD to offer its clients an “all-inclusive” package of foreign exchange and interest rate data from VWD.
S&P Cap IQ Boosts Content Acquisition, Partners Unit
McGraw-Hill Financial's S&P Capital IQ division has made three senior hires to its Content Acquisition and Strategic Alliances (CASA) unit, to strengthen the team as the vendor prepares to expand its function to include oversight of content acquisition…
cPacket Enlists Newgen in Australasia
Mountain View, Calif.-based network monitoring technology provider cPacket Networks has appointed network and IT monitoring and consulting company Newgen Systems as its integration partner in Australia and New Zealand.
FTSE TMX JV Buys MTS Indexes
FTSE TMX Global Debt Capital Markets--a joint venture between FTSE Group and TMX Datalinx, the information services division of Canadian exchange TMX Group--has bought the indexes business of MTS, the London Stock Exchange-majority owned electronic fixed…
Direct FX Taps First Derivatives to Deliver FX Rates, Trading to CQG Clients
Australian foreign exchange broker Direct FX is rolling out Newry, Northern Ireland-based software and consulting services First Derivatives' Delta Flow product to provide FX rates and order management capabilities to clients of US market data and…
Pico Buys SpryWare for Data Tools; Preps Integration, International Expansion
New York-based agency broker and trading infrastructure provider Pico Quantitative Trading has acquired Chicago-based ticker plant, feed handler and historical data store vendor SpryWare, in a move to strengthen its data technology assets and expand its…
Emerging Markets News, Data Vendors BNE, EMD to Merge
BNE, a provider of English-language business, economics and political news and analysis covering central, eastern and southeast Europe and former Soviet Union countries, is to merge with central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa news and…
Polaris Buys Majority Stake in The Roberts Group
Waltham, Mass.-based venture capital firm Polaris Partners has acquired a controlling stake in market data inventory software provider The Roberts Group (TRG) to enable the company to reduce the lead time for new services and products as well as expand…
Bloomberg Buys UBS Aussie Bond Indexes
After 25 years of calculating a family of Australian bond indexes, Swiss investment bank UBS has sold the indexes─including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index─to data giant Bloomberg.
MarketPrizm, Fusion Ally for Asia Managed Low-Latency Data
London-based market data and trading infrastructure services provider MarketPrizm is partnering with Hong Kong-headquartered technology vendor Fusion Systems to offer a joint low-latency trading gateway and risk management solution for Fusion's clients…
Swift Acquires Sanctions Specialist Omnicision
Messaging provider Swift has announced its acquisition of UK-based Omnicision, further bolstering its recently formed compliance services division.